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Originally Posted by J B
A question for the people who use Niftystats: Did you ever try StatsRemote and what do you prefer about Niftystats except that it's free?
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I used SR for several months, perhaps a year and now I am a MODERATELY happy NS (free) user. Note that moderately is the keyword here.
I am testing SR for Linux at the moment, and here are the pros and cons.
NS pros over SR:
1 ) When I add a sponsor in NS, all the subprograms appear under that sponsor in NS. I have to add each program one by one in SR. Same happens with some sponsors custom campaigns. NS tracks them automatically while SR doesn't. Example sponsors are AFF, Herbal Revenue and PimpMansion, just get them added in NS and SR and you will see the difference immediately.
2 ) Nice and EASY graphs. I love graphs, specially to be able to select a couple of different sponsors and get them plotted into the same graph for an easy comparison. SR has very rudimentary graphs.
SR pros over NS:
1 ) Works on Linux, so I don't need to run a virtual machine for the stats.
2 ) Has support for practically every affiliate program adult or not.
SR cons (practically repeating stuff fron above):
1 ) No decent graphs.
2 ) Each subprogram must be added separatedly. This leads to having 500 rows for 30 or 40 sponsors. AND the most ANNOYING part is that I have to add them one by one.
3 ) Seems it doesn't track properly refunds and chergebacks for AFF, at least my demo version doesn't.
NS cons:
1 ) Doesn't work on Linux
2 ) Supports very few programs
3 ) Stats are not always accurate, specially with the popup thingie.
Being both products not ideal for my needs, I just went with the free one BECAUSE it has better graphs and nested sponsor subprograms. Note that price was not a decision factor at all, but the graps and the nested subprogram stats per sponsor.
Add proper (nested) subprograms tracking and decent graphs and I will be a happy SR user. Until then, I see absolutely no improvement over the SR 3 version I used on a windows box some time ago, except that now it also runs on Linux.